A nurse suspected of having caught the Ebola virus through contact with an infected humanitarian worker was admitted to a hospital near Paris on Thursday, media said. The woman, suffering from a high fever, was transferred under high security from her home in the ...

Japan will promote its language in ASEAN member states by sending about 3,000 volunteers to local high schools over a seven-year period starting this year, a government source said Monday. The ¥10 billion project is aimed at strengthening relations with the Association of Southeast ...

This month marks the third anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake. Students from Nagoya Gakuin University in Aichi Prefecture have continued to do volunteer work in affected areas, ensuring that the victims are not forgotten. Using their spring break, 46 students are currently ...

A group lobbying for transport and lodging discounts for disaster volunteers has been launched in Kobe to keep the spirit of volunteerism alive. The “group to actualize discounts for disaster volunteers” was launched Friday, the 19th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that wrecked ...

Having majored in chemistry and played American football at university, Tomoyuki Banba never imagined he would lead an organization to promote relations between Japan and South Korea in the future. “I visited South Korea for a friendship match but never thought I’d get a ...

When Santa Claus arrived recently at a school hosting children who fled the Fukushima nuclear disaster, he brought the usual presents, but he also bore something a little less ordinary — a gourmet Christmas dinner. The Caravan Bon Appetite is an initiative of French ...

To help turn the tide against suicide, a volunteer group of Buddhist priests, both men and women, writes letters to distraught people to help keep them from taking their own lives. People considering suicide “write to us because they want to live,” said Yusen ...

Izu-Oshima Island, heavily damaged last month by landslides triggered by Typhoon Wipha, has been drawing many volunteers. Kosaku Mukai, 46, from Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, who hosts a disaster relief radio show in Chiba that supports victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake, is one ...

A hospital in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, is pioneering a new way of working that it hopes will reverse the high turnover rate of nursing staff in Japan. The Onishi Neurological Center organizes nurses into groups of four, allowing them to take three months of ...

Sometimes making a difference just means making the time. Kerry Shioya, 49, travels two or three times a month to the Tohoku areas hit by the March 11, 2011, disasters. Sometimes setting out alone, sometimes bringing one of her five children, interested English students ...

On a morning in January, female volunteers went to Tokyo’s Yoyogi Park to feed and attend to the needs of the homeless. The women, who belong to the Japan branch of the Tzu Chi Foundation, a Taiwanese humanitarian group established in 1966 by Buddhist ...